CEO Weekends: South Africa’s Website Builder Yola Launches Buildathon Contest

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yola_newsletter_heroSouth African free site builder, Yola has launched its first Yola Website Buildathon Contest in a move to encourage people of all ages and tech skills to build professional website s and quickly and easily and win prizes along the way.
The contest requires entrants to create a three-page website using Super Flat or Skyline and  then submit it to Yola before February 9.
According to Yola winning sites will each receive prizes and they will be converted into a Theme on one of Yola’s Styles,  the builder will have a one-year premium website services subscription (Bronze, Silver, or Gold), get a custom domain and private registration for one year plus Yola Mail, email marketing among others.

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“Everyday we see websites published on the Yola platform that show true promise,” said Trevor Harries-Jones, CEO of Yola in a blog post. “The Yola Buildathon contest will give people the opportunity to showcase their customized websites and be a part of what makes Yola great.”

The firm has also launched an eBook: Get Started Building Your Website to help contestants plan and design their websites using Yola’s free tools. The site builder will also publish a series of 5-Minute Website Fixes on its blog  to help builders fix any bugs if present.

“Everyday we see websites published on the Yola platform that show true promise,” said Trevor Harries-Jones, CEO of Yola. “The Yola Buildathon contest will give people the opportunity to showcase their customized websites and be a part of what makes Yola great.”

Founded in Cape Town in 2007 by Gyft c0-founder Vinny Lingham, is based in San Francisco and Cape Town and has over 8 million users using the platform in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. It has both free and paid subscription packages.
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Sam Wakoba
Sam Wakoba
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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba
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